Louie (Louis C.K.'s show on FX)

'HAY I'M RIDING A MOTORCYCLE AROUND TOWN' .while he's looking like the most awkward dude ever riding a motorcycle.

Yep, he really knocked that "motorbikes are cool" thing right on the head. I was able to turn to my husband and say "that'd be you if I let you buy a motorbike."

lol

meh. seems like the show has already hit the late Seinfeld stage. but i look forward to being totally wrong!

― Iago Galdston, Friday, 29 June 2012 17:31 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ some bullshit, gonna annoyingly c&p this after each forthcoming rad episode

have fun with that, schlump!

gaby hoffman is TOO YOUNG for louis ck

have fun with that, schlump!

― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 30 June 2012 19:28 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha ha. i just think that part of this show's charm is its range & variety, which this ep did some work in expanding - the relationship dynamics thing, which afaict was a pretty novel depiction of shitty relationship miscommunication - & so naysaying on account of its maybe-failure as a comic exercise (like how seinfeld would suck if it wasn't funny) seems shortsighted. but i am a zealous defender of the show here, so.

Basically everyone who's seen the first 5 seems to agree that the first is the least exciting. Which has me very stoked indeed.

it felt very much like an odds and ends episode, same as the halloween thing from last season but much better. He says he has at least one multi part episode, so i don't mind him fucking around with a series of short gags about a fucked up day.
Looking forward to the maria bamford arc!

Bamford is on, hot shit! I can totally imagine that the eps will get worlds better from here on out.

The guest list on this season is pretty nuts. I'll shut up in case anyone would prefer to be surprised.

I would.

yeah excited for Bamford

IMO this show is more depressing and crushing than funny

same thing, really.

"something something manhole cover" —Mel Brooks

"Basically everyone who's seen the first 5 seems to agree that the first is the least exciting. Which has me very stoked indeed."

cosign, not the best episode ever but certainly good tv. the car getting mashed. the biker gang. the parking signs. the breakup. the standup at the beginning. all pretty awesome! season 2 was hit and miss, but with a ratio of about 5 hits to one miss. i vote that dude totally gets a pass on the misses though cause he, like, *reaches*, ya know? if he wasn't brave enough to do the suicidal friend anti-laughfest episode, would he have had the balls to bring subway/pamela to the networks either?

thought that first ep was *amazing* except for the standup bit which was a bit average. watched it with my girl after we'd had a little tiff and were being a bit quiet with each other. at the end of the ep everything was okay again. thanks mr szekely!

"Louis is the funniest man in America," says his longtime friend Chris Rock. "Everything's clicking. I'm sure Prince felt this way when he did Purple Rain."

last episode was... darling nikki? we still got an i would die 4 u, when doves cry, and beautiful ones coming i reckon

not to mention his sign o the times coming up in a season or 2

which means in five years or so we'll get "Batdance"

that CBS comedy he's doing could be his Batdance

xpost woudn't surprise me but he'll probably still be great live in like 20 years

ilx never met an analogy it couldn't drag out to its logical extreme to the point of total nonsense in record time

cbs comedy got passed over, btw, there's a long, good article about his tv history on i think splitsider or slate or salon that mentions it towards the end

CBS goes for the most staid and stereotypical kind of comedy, I don't think his show was ever going to work there even if it was presented in a more traditional format than Louie.

©µ, aka the artist formerly known as louis

the relationship dynamics thing, which afaict was a pretty novel depiction of shitty relationship miscommunication

otm, this was marvelous

because of edinburgh, which even the big comics do, i think most non-us anglo comics write a show a year. there isn't that pressure/milestone for us comics afaict.

Aren't US comics more likely to put out a comedy record (basically unheard of for UK comics) fairly regularly, though?

yeah nowadays most of the comics who get TV specials have several albums, or at the very least CDs of audio versions of their specials

sure. the point i was making is that no, louie is not unique in writing a new hour of material every year -- that's how comedy works in the non-US english speaking world. seems like you're saying it's true in the US too.

people on Twitter yesterday were getting adamant about this being LCK

can't believe louis would sign off "breast of luck"

yeah i was just backing up what you were saying about CDs, caek, since you didn't seem sure (xpost)

can't believe louis would sign off "breast of luck"

No, that was what one of the alleged victims wrote. Maybe it's a hint as to what really went down!

I'd be pretty shocked if this actually was him. I mean it's definitely worded to imply that's who it is but I somehow doubt Louie C.K. is going to be ending any careers

other than the hint that it's someone who has a well regarded TV show there are pretty much hundreds of famous comedians who could have plausibly done that (and maybe actually have)

the total disregard for continuity here is really neat and unlike anything I've ever seen on TV before; like, how the hell did Louie decide on that actress to play his ex-wife?

― frogbs, Friday, June 29, 2012 9:46 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what exactly do u mean by this dog

loved the relationship stuff in this ep btw, i think i may have broken up with someone like that before :S

haha i was trying really hard not to ask that.

xp

And why is that, horseshoe? you don't want to unleash my RACE HATE on the Louie thread???

I'm guessing that either you don't watch the show or you're just willingly trying to bait me into saying something stupid, because his kids (which have appeared in like a dozen episodes) are clearly not bi-racial, so anyone who watches the show is probably going to have some kind of reaction to seeing that the ex-wife was, in fact, black

What I'm saying is that Louie obviously isn't thinking about this any more than "who's the best actress for this part" since he cares fuck all about continuity, but I'm sure he got a kick out of the logical disconnect anyway

how the hell did Louie decide on that actress to play his ex-wife?

"How about we cast an African-American woman as my ex-wife for a little while?"
"Good idea. I'll call Susan."

i can't even

then don't, please

Louis C.K. could individually lock each of us in a hotel room and make us watch him jerk it and he'd still be more highly regarded on this thread than Froggy B.S.

in an earlier episode, his sister referred to his ex as a "guinea" i believe
louis' deal with this show is that there is no continuity and he does not give a fuck about it. what i was surprised about was the suggestion louis could pull a woman that fine to bear his children
i enjoyed watching her work her jaw as she said "motorcycle... uh huh...."

yeah that was why i said upthread that it's maybe not worth it to call the show a 'sitcom' -- it's basically a series of autobiographical sketches, which occasionally have common threads but are more often than not discrete and not narratively connected.

ya unless you want to be snarky about it

what i was surprised about was the suggestion louis could pull a woman that fine to bear his children

this was maybe done out of respect to his ex - I thought not showing her face in Season 1 was kind of a classy move, but yeah compared to the women he sleeps with on the other episodes, this woman was something

i still think "here's me doing standup, here's me acting in a social situation" is a pretty lazy formula for a show and that a lot of the excitement around the show is that he doesn't keep up a lot of the usual standup-tv-vehicle artifice of three act stories and wacky friends, though. but i see the appeal, it pays off pretty well here and there, just not in love with the format. (xpost)

When we contacted the victim to check out the story, she wrote back: "first of all, your facts are wrong. and secondly, i don't want to be a part of this story. i'm sure you understand." When we asked her which facts were wrong and if the incident ever happened at all, she wrote: "please don't contact me about this matter anymore. Breast of luck to you."

those journalists over at gawker are really doing yeoman's work here